Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song When The Subway Comes Above The Ground, artist - Leif Vollebekk. Album song North Americana, in the genre Альтернатива
Date of issue: 18.02.2013
Record label: Secret City
Song language: English
When The Subway Comes Above The Ground |
In T.O. |
I was laughing |
At my friend who sold his soul |
I guess it wouldn’t’ve been so funny had I not sold mine for less |
Orange smokestacks in the sunset casting shadows until our faces drowned |
It’s better to have left and laughed than never to have left at all |
I found myself on a subway coming above the ground |
I used to tango |
But that, that was then |
I danced too close to the band that’s how I got this ringing in my ears |
And sometimes I just can’t sleep from the sound |
I can’t hear it during the day, It’s just at night or when things get quiet |
Like when the subway comes above the ground |
In Tennessee, I went looking |
For someone to throw me against the wall |
I wanted to be inspired until disheartened, spend the money I’d hard-earned |
Oh, just to see his name with flashing yellow lights bulbs all around |
But he left us in the Mississippi |
He wasn’t even thirty-one |
If only he’d come up like a subway from the ground |
In springtime, I was standing |
With a brown dog by my side |
I was sweating I was staring at Mayan ruins |
Then I was next to you on that bus going straight out of town |
From Memphis and Nashville to New York City |
Your jaw was wide and pretty |
And you turned to me and said, «Am I in ruins like the outskirts of the city |
where all the subways come above ground?» |
And I said no |
In Iceland, it was festival season |
And I went knocking at your door |
You opened up and there you were |
With the halo of the porch-light you were crowned |
We stayed up all night |
Phrases fading like countryside in the rearview mirror |
I was hoping that one day you’d be next to me or at least somewhere near |
When the subway comes above the ground |